Team Leader: John Erik Fossum is Professor of Political Science at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, and Scientific Coordinator of the H2020-funded project EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy (EU3D). His main fields of research include political theory, democracy, constitutionalism in the EU and Canada, as well as Europeanisation and transformation of the nation state. In the last two decades, Fossum has contributed extensively to the field of developing and applying federal and democratic theory to the EU as a distinct political system, and comparing the EU with Canada.
Christopher Lord is Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. His main fields of academic interest include the study of democracy, legitimacy and the European Union. He has done considerable research on questions of legitimacy, democracy and the European Union, and has published extensively on the topic. He has also worked on topics such as the history of British relations to the European Communities, EU foreign policy, political economy of monetary union and political parties in the EU. He is the coordinator for “The Post-Crisis Legitimacy of the European Union” (PLATO), an Innovative Training Network (ITN) aimed at rethinking theory of legitimation crisis.
Asimina Michailidou is Senior Researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. Her current research, under the projects EU3D and REFLEX, analyses the role of digital news and social media in filtering and shaping public perceptions about the EU but also in facilitating democratic accountability and citizens’ mobilization, particularly in times of crisis. She focuses on the role of journalism and social media in shaping relations of trust between politicians and citizens. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Communication from Loughborough University, UK.
Guri Rosen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. She has a PhD and master’s degree in political science from the University of Oslo and an MSc in sociology from the University of Oxford. Among her research interests are EU’s external trade policy and the European Parliament as well as parliamentary politics, political representation and democracy. She has published in journals such as Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, Government and Opposition and Journal of Common Market Studies. Rosén is also the leader of a research project on contestation of trade politics, funded by the Research Council of Norway.